Around the life and health insurance industry: Week of May 9, 2016

LifeMark Partners, Inc., an independent national insurance marketing organization, announced the addition of two new members to their board of directors: Dan Allison, president of Brokers Clearing House, Ltd., and Daniel P. Anderson, chief executive officer of Madison Brokerage. Both will serve four-year terms.

Amy Lynch, generational expert and author, will present the keynote address at the LOMA Financial Inforum 2016, to be held May 16–18 at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. In her keynote address "Innovation from Every Generation," Lynch will reveal the critical conditions that free each generation to produce new ideas, and will give attendees strategies that get measurable results.

There is a need to build an effective long-term marketing and sales strategy that also includes the ability to predict what the market will look like six months or a year out. To provide that capability, Quadrant Information Services has introduced InsureWatch Looking Glass^TM, which is a predictive analytics tool built into its cloud-based InsureWatch pricing analytics system.

Sammons Retirement Solutions, part of Sammons Financial Group (SFG), has grown exponentially in the past three years. Headquartered in Des Moines, the company provides simple and innovative solutions that can help individual investors live well in retirement.